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* Mets owner Fred Wilpon telling The Post that Omar Minaya “absolutely” will return as the team’s general manager in 2010 [Mike Puma: “They’ll be back,” The Post and nypost.com, Aug. 23] proves that the team’s ownership is as clueless as the front office. Minaya and Jerry Manuel will be back at Citi Field in 2010 but I, and I suspect many other similarly frustrated Mets fans, surely won’t be.

PHYLLIS KASS

Howard Beach

* I cannot understand the logic that the Mets’ ownership uses when they announce that Omar Minaya is coming back next year. What exactly has he done? He has won nothing, done nothing except try to deflect his former right-hand man’s (Tony Bernazard) meltdown, developed a minimal amount of good ballplayers and failed miserably at attempting to sully a reporter’s reputation. The Mets, by dint of their ownership’s inaction, are mired in mediocrity. Why would someone root for a losing organization, when across town is the winningest franchise in professional sports?

ALAN SWARTZ

Verona, N.J.

* How is it possible that anybody who has an inkling of what a baseball team needs to be successful knows that the Mets have to clean house — except their ownership? Are the Wilpons so blind that they can’t see that this managerial team doesn’t have a clue? It’s not that the Mets are going in the wrong direction, but that they have no direction. Out of everybody on the major league level, I would keep Johan Santana, Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes, David Wright, Jeff Francoeur, Angel Pagan, Mike Pelfrey, Francisco Rodriguez and maybe John Maine. Don’t worry though, Mets fans: Omar Minaya didn’t want to part with any of his minor league prospects, so we apparently are going to be undefeated in the 2011 season. Whoopee!

LOUIE REY

East Meadow, N.Y.

* I know all about the Mets’ injuries this season, but do you think for one minute that Yankees GM Brain Cashman would have told his fans if Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira Alex Rodriguez were out for an extending period of time, to sit tight until the core guys come back? No way! They would have filled those holes and kept on rolling. The Mets seem to think the likes of Nick Evans, Daniel Murphy and Cory Sullivan are going to replace Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran. You cannot make up that kind of production with bench players. I remember the bad Mets teams of the late 1970s, but this team is the worst of the worst.

KENNY CULLEN

Throggs Neck

Green-eyed monster

* In last week’s Sound Off [“The best team money can buy,” The Post and nypost.com, Aug. 23] a reader complains that the Yankees have bought their lofty position in the standings. May I point out that the Yankees, through luxury tax payments, have made it possible for other teams to compete in the free agent market — at least those whose owners better their teams with the money rather than putting it in their pockets. At least Yankees fans can enjoy a competitive team each year. Let fans of other teams be jealous.

CHUCK ECKSTEIN

Brooklyn

The real Boss

* The YES network is promoting the upcoming episode of “Yankeeography” featuring George Steinbrenner, stating that Steinbrenner is “the architect of the latest Yankee dynasty.” Nevertheless, it’s a common perception among knowledgeable Yankees fans that it was Steinbrenner’s nearly three year suspension, from the summer of 1990 to spring training of 1993, that allowed the organization to develop its farm system, which produced such talent as Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte. Had Steinbrenner been around, many argue that immense talent would have been either tampered with or traded away. Furthermore, how did Steinbrenner, who was vilified in the 1970s as the worst owner in sports (read Sparky Lyle’s “The Bronx Zoo”), become such a beloved figure among current Yankees, who now gush over him? Even after Steinbrenner’s 1993 return, major free agents such as Greg Maddux signed for less money elsewhere rather than living under Steinbrenner’s overbearing thumb. I wonder if any of this is going to be covered in Steinbrenner’s “Yankeeography?”